LEADER AND MENTOR• Financial technology authority advising key management and team members while leading the design and implementation of optimized solutions that improve security and performance, decrease risk, and save money. • Lead System Architect, Systems Engineer, Software Developer, and Security Expert for heterogeneous large-scale server, identity management, DB, and network infrastructure. • Expert in securing mission critical systems in the financial industry; Linux, UNIX, networking, containerization, availability, and optimizing for high frequency / low latency trading. • Build plans and consensus among management, development, and infrastructure leaders. • Automate provisioning and system administration to increase consistency and reduce errors. • Plan and implement infrastructure using QA / reliability engineering methodologies to reduce risk. • Perform root cause analysis. Recommend and implement fixes that prevent reoccurrence.TECHNICAL SKILLSLinux, RHEL / CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows Server, Docker containers, Kubernetes, VMware ESXi, Agile, JIRA, SDLC process, Confluence, Python, Perl, C, C++, AWK, bash shell scripting, regular expressions, IP sockets programming, GIT, FreeIPA, Red Hat IDM, Active Directory - Linux integration, SSO, MIT Kerberos, cross-realm Trust, GSSAPI, AAA, 2FA, LDAP, PAM, Apache, HTTP, Tomcat, Nginx, MySQL, Web-based authentication, SPNEGO, SASL, Puppet, Ansible, layer 5 and layer 7 proxies, Tcl/Tk, Kernel tuning, TCP/IP networks, switches, routers, VLANs, ACLs, ipsec VPNs, TLS, SSL certificates, PKI, NSS, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, cryptography algorithms, SFTP, SeLinux, tcpdump, Wireshark, PCAP, DNS, bind, NTP, LVM, NFS, NAS servers, autofs / automount, GlusterFS, ZFS, RAID, Samba, SMTP, Postfix, DHCP, PXE and kickstart, automated provisioning, Puppet with Foreman, X/Windows, Firewall rule sets: IPtables, PF, Linux Kernel tuning and performance optimization for low latency / high frequency trading platforms.